Senator Hyde-Smith believes the Unites States is strong when agriculture and rural America are strong. The Senator understands the unique challenges faced by rural Mississippi to provide residents with basic services, infrastructure, education, and health care. She supports policies that will allow rural communities to expand economically. The federal government should not be a roadblock to the growth and wellbeing of rural America.
HYDE-SMITH, AG PANEL CONSIDER BILL TO PROMOTE FARM & RANCH ACCESS TO CARBON CREDIT MARKETS
HYDE-SMITH, AG PANEL CONSIDER BILL TO PROMOTE FARM & RANCH ACCESS TO CARBON CREDIT MARKETS
VIDEO: Senator Hyde-Smith Questions Farm Bureau President on Increasing Access to Markets.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) with the Senate Agriculture Committee today explored how to best increase voluntary participation by farmers and ranchers in conservation efforts through broader access to carbon credit markets.
The committee conducted a hearing Wednesday on the Growing...
HYDE-SMITH WELCOMES $1.27 MILLION FOR UMMC & USM TO INCREASE HEALTH WORKFORCE
HYDE-SMITH WELCOMES $1.27 MILLION FOR UMMC & USM TO INCREASE HEALTH WORKFORCE
HHS Provides Four Grants to Build Dental & Nursing Workforce to Serve Rural & Underserved Communities
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today reported the award of more than $1.27 million to the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) and the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) to support the training of health workers to serve in rural and underserved communities.
UMMC and USM...
HYDE-SMITH, KING OFFER BILL TO PROTECT PATIENTS BY EASING TELEHEALTH PAYMENT BURDEN
HYDE-SMITH, KING OFFER BILL TO PROTECT PATIENTS BY EASING TELEHEALTH PAYMENT BURDEN
Legislation Required to Shield Rural Clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers from Looming Medicare Clawback Payments
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S Senators Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and Angus King (I-Maine) today introduced legislation to protect patients receiving care through telehealth services by shielding certain clinics in underserved communities from impending Medicare clawback payments.
The Improving...
Army Corps report supports Mississippi flood-control pumps
Associated Press
Army Corps report supports Mississippi flood-control pumps
By Emily Wagster Pettus
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued another report Friday favoring agribusinesses over environmentalists in a decades-long battle over a massive flood control project in...
MISSISSIPPI RIVER: 'Insanely fast' flood project races past Interior pushback
Greenwire
MISSISSIPPI RIVER: 'Insanely fast' flood project races past Interior pushback
by Hannah Northey and Ariel Wittenberg
The Trump administration is moving at breakneck speed to sign off on a sprawling flood mitigation project in Mississippi that EPA originally vetoed in 2008 — a move that...
Wicker, Hyde-Smith and Kelly announce $24.3M project to renovate Aberdeen courthouse
Monroe Journal
Wicker, Hyde-Smith and Kelly announce $24.3M project to renovate Aberdeen courthouse
The Monroe Journal
Dec. 9, 2020
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., and Representative Trent Kelly, R-Miss., today announced that Congress has approved...